Re: Proposed _history completer

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Apr 27, 12:44pm, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> } Subject: Re: Proposed _history completer
> }
> } Maybe we could make $historywords an assoc with the words as keys and
> } the values giving information about that word. Something like the
> } history number where it comes from plus information about the context
> } (command-context, of some kind).
> 
> That can't work, can it?  What if the same word appears in different
> places in the history, or even different places in the same command?
> The keys would have to be made unique somehow, or else you have to
> have a complicated format for compounding the value.

Ouch. Of course ;-}

> I think having a way to chop a string into shell words -- something like
> what you did for copy-prev-shell-word -- would be more effective.

Ah, when I wrote that I had planned to allow this anyway and then
forgot... some parameter flag, most likely. Hm, s and S are taken,
so are c and C. We could use `=' but that would probably be too
irritating.


Bye
 Sven


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